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The report has been drawn up by a working group of eight vice-chancellors led by Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London.

Universities must engage and debate with extremists, report says 2011

The report, published by Universities UK, the umbrella group for vice-chancellors, is likely to fuel accusations that universities are complacent about radicalisation.

Universities must engage and debate with extremists, report says 2011

Speaking to vice-chancellors at the annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Willetts ruled out such a system as "neither sustainable nor sensible".

David Willetts backs fees cap to stop Oxbridge subsidising the rest Jessica Shepherd 2010

Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of the umbrella group for vice-chancellors Universities UK, urged teenagers to remember that, on average, graduates earn "considerably more" than non-graduates over their working lives.

Firms cast doubt on value of degree amid squeeze on university places 2011

More than 5,000 university students at 35 universities have joined the Student Action for Refugees campaign to ask vice-chancellors to charge home fees and grant bursaries to their asylum-seeking classmates.

Letter: Access to university and asylum seekers 2011

The deputy prime minister will host a meeting with vice-chancellors on Thursday to discuss their response.

Universities must widen access, Nick Clegg to demand 2011

A circular sent to NUS members said the national walkout would be part of a week of action "to demonstrate to VC's vice-chancellors and principals … that students will not stand by and let the coalition government press ahead with its destructive policies to sell off and privatise our universities and colleges".

NUS plans mass student walkout 2012

In his spring speech to the vice-chancellors' conference, the higher education minister, David Willetts, said that the government's ambition was to make the new higher education framework "as de-regulatory as we can".

Not so much deregulation of HE, more dismantling of the foundations 2011

The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, will warn vice-chancellors universities have become "instruments of social segregation" as the government prepares to set new targets on widening access to institutions charging more than £6,000 a year.

Universities must widen access, Nick Clegg to demand 2011

Universities UK (UUK), the umbrella group for vice-chancellors, warned that the government planned to strip British higher education of between £4. 1bn and £6. 6bn by 2015.

UK universities likely to follow US model, says leading vice-chancellor Jessica Shepherd 2010